Improvement in horse-rake



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WESLEY SQUIER, 0E EDoN, OHIO.

Leners Para: 1v 99,966, and February 1'5, 1870.

IMPROvEl/[ENT IN' HORSE-RARE.

m The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of ,the max ne.

Toall 'whom 'it may concern y Be it known that I, WESLEY SQUIER, of Eden, in the count-y. of Williams, and State of Ohio, have in` vented a new and valuable Improvement in Sulky hereinafter mentioned.

Ois a rod extending from the lever L to the top and serves as a means for operating trip-frame .P, as

Horse Hay-Rakes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation ot' the same, reference heing had to the annexed drawings making a part of this specification and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a top view of my invention.

Figure 2 is a central vertical section of same.

My invention has relation to horse hay-lakes; and

It consists in the construction and n 'ovel arrangement of devices intended, to serve as eicient means in raking hay hy horse power. A 4

A ot' the drawings represents the axle-ot' my carriage;

B, the wheels;

C; the shafts; `and l), the'driveids Seat. l

E E represent .curved arms hinged to the axle, to the rear ends of which is hinged the revolving rake G.

F represents a cross-bar uniting the arms E E.

H H are arms, the front ends ot' which rest upon the axle. Their centers are attached to the cross-liar F, and their rear ends serve as means for supporting the trip-trame P, in the manuel shown.

The letter u represents an iron rod held in staples on the front side of the axle, and has each end bent forward, so as to form arms'or levers, for the purpose` mentioned hereafter. v

vThese extended arms are marked c on the drawings, and they'are respectively united-with the front ends lof arms H H by means of the chains y.

' To the iight of the driveis seat, and having its bent lower end firmly united'io the right-hand arm` lv, is arranged the operating leverL. Itis held-in place by a. staple in the outer side of the right-hand arm H,

cross-piece of the trip-frame, and

b is a brace-rod extending from the upper bar of the trip-frame to the rod 0, and connected with the rod 0 in theA manner represented on the drawings.

The letter b represents a spring, the lower end of which is coiled around the cross-bar F, and the upper end secured in aloop formed in the rod O, as shown.

My horse-rake is operated as follows: The lever Lv is left untouched until the rake is loaded. I then force the lever brward. This movement presses down the front ends of 'arms e, tightens the chains y, and lifts the rake andftrip-i'ame. At the same time the rod O is drawn forward, and with it the upper part of the trip, thereby releasing the trip from the rake, and allowing the rake to revolve. The level' is now allowed to resume its original posi tion, and the process is repeated indetinitely.

I make a coil in the rod O at the'pointd, which serves as a spring in regulating the movements of the lever.

Said spring will bring the lever to its original posi-v tion, and render that mnchinelautomatic. l

What I claimas my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The horse-rake herein described, having the. rake G, level-L, arms n, ehains'y, arms H H, axle A, crossbar F, and rod O, constructed and arranged to operate as specified.

In testimony that I claim the above, I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

part of the movements of the WESLEY sQUIEE.-

Witnesses:

JAMES A Gr.l CAMnRoxf J ons ALLEN. 

